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Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?

From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?
Date 2025-10-27 09:34 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 25 Oct 2025 12:49:55 GMT
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> But what is "new" to me, I mean not from yesterday, but from a few
> years, is that it works in the other way around, too. Some French
> words are used in English because they sound cool. And they are far
> more than what I knew/guessed a few years ago.

Yeah - English speakers adopting French terms isn't as common as it used
to be,* but a lot of the expressions that have been imported over the
centuries are still in semi-common use.

* (It'd be interesting to trace this behavior in a global context over
  time - these days, for example, most of our novel loanwords seem to
  come from Japanese, post-anime boom.)

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Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-10-27 09:34 -0700
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